When Cindy Tiemann, RN and director of nursing for an assisted living facility, wanted a career change, she never anticipated becoming an...
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Career Swap Puts Partners Behind the Wheel of a Pumping Truck
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Changes in Speccing Equipment Leads Pumper to More Work
Back in the mid-1940s when Bob Overbey started his company, Overbey’s Septic Tank Service in McLeansville, North Carolina, it was primarily a...
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Grease is the Meal Ticket for This Established North Carolina Pumping Company
Cultural changes have nudged Overbey’s Septic Tank Service into different directions since the mid-1940s when Bob Overbey and his brothers returned home...
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Systemize Equipment and Training to Win Big
Aseries of acquisitions, coupled with an emphasis on customer service, professionalism and equipment standardization, has helped growth-minded Northeast Sanitation emerge over the...
Vacuum Trailers/Tanks - Advance Pump & Equipment Versa-Vac
The Versa-Vac vacuum trailer from Advance Pump & Equipment has a 1,000-gallon debris hopper with either 1,400 or 2,200 cfm high-volume vacuum...
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Buy a New Rolling Chassis; Add a Rebuilt Late-Model Engine
As a first-time owner of a small septic service company with just two employees, Matt Herink is all about efficiency, controlling expenses...
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Moving to a Blower System
Pumper Phil LaRoche and his wife, Kathy, operate LaRoche’s Sewer, Drain & Septic Services, a full-service septic company in Faribault, Minnesota, a...
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Minnesota Pumpers Work Together to Improve State Regulations
Minnesota septic operators have had some struggles over the years disposing of waste. One problem was some treatment plants refused to accept...
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Pick the Mother of All Classy Trucks
You can help the judges at COLE Publishing choose the 2015 Classy Truck of the Year. And it’s easy to do. Simply...
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Make Grease a Gateway to Pumping Profits
Grease Masters LLC, based in St. Charles, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, lives up to its name. The company collects about...
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Classy Truck Of The Month - October 2015
Owner Dean Cadwell put into service this 2013 Kenworth T800, built out by Advance Pump & Equipment with a 4,500-gallon aluminum tank...
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A Look Back at Classy Truck Winners
Classy Truck has been a popular feature in Pumper for years, but 2006 marked the start of an annual contest to choose...
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Expanding Services Means Happy Customers – And Add-On Fees
In 2010, after Regan Wilson established River Valley Septic Inc. in Riegelsville, Pennsylvania, he worried constantly about finding enough work to keep...
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Pumper’s Mechanical Training Helps Build Thriving Business
When Regan Wilson decided to start his own septic service business in 2010 in east-central Pennsylvania, he began with nothing more than...
